将近

• I hope to arrive towards six o'clock .
  我希望在将近六点的时候到达。
• He came here a scant three months ago .
  他将近三个月以前才到这里。
• He was silent for the best part of a minute .
  他静默了将近一分钟。
• We were near the limit of german manpower .
  德国人力已将近枯竭。
• It was almost five years ago, may the ninth .
  那是将近五年以前，5月9日。
• He is scarcely seventeen years old .
  他还不到（将近）十七岁。
• He was already out nearly three thousand dollars .
  他已经输了将近三千元。
• It is getting on for 3 o'clock .
  快三点钟，将近三点钟。
• The old man is near upon eighty .
  那老人将近八十了。
• They cost pretty near a million apiece, those things .
  那些东西，每条将近值一百万元。